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SunGard steps up the fight for securities lending data
11 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard has launched a global, 24-hour real-time streaming of live securities lending transactions through its Astec Analytics solution suite, competing with offerings from EquiLend and Markit Securities Finance...

Assets under custody increase but GSF dips for Clearstream
08 February 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Clearstream has released its January 2013 figures, which show a decrease in global securities finance (GSF), but an increase in assets under custody...

Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System to become a lender again
08 February 2013 Nashville
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) is returning to securities lending, a spokesperson for the state’s treasury department confirmed...

New CEO for Stonewain
08 February 2013 Berkeley Heights
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Armeet Sandhu has been promoted to CEO at securities finance software and solutions provider Stonewain Systems...

Salvatore Cangialosi joins Albert Fried’s prime lending division
07 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Salvatore Cangialosi has been recruited for Albert Fried & Company’s prime lending services division from Credit Suisse, where he was director of fixed income securities lending in their New York office...

Som Seif’s new ‘democratic’ firm chooses CIBC Mellon
07 February 2013 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Purpose Investments has selected CIBC Mellon to deliver a full suite of asset servicing solutions, including custody, fund accounting, ETF administration and securities lending services...

Rockall’s collateral solution picked out by CoBank
06 February 2013 Colorado
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Rockall Technologies’ collateral management solution STOC has been selected by CoBank in Colorado...

CalPERS welcomes Ron Lind to board
06 February 2013 Sacramento
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has recruited Ron Lind to its board of administration...

ESMA polishes up market making exemption
05 February 2013 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final guidelines on the exemption for market making activities and primary market operations under the Short Selling Regulation...

European investors bite nails over MiFID transparency
05 February 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Over half of European investors polled say that the MiFID II proposal to force all quotes in fixed income instruments to be firm and disclosed to the market will have a negative impact on trading activity and reduce liquidity...

BlackRock contests plumbers and pipefitters lawsuit
05 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A lawsuit from two pension plans had landed BlackRock’s securities lending scheme in trouble, after it was alleged that the asset management firm had taken revenue out of investors’ hands...

Eurex witness single stock increase and repo decline
04 February 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Eurex Group has released its January 2013 figures, which show an increase in equity derivatives but a decrease in repo...